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There's a new kid on the blocks. Director Rob Schrab will make his feature film debut with "The Lego Movie Sequel," Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. A veteran of TV comedy, Schrab has directed episodes of "Community," "The Mindy Project" and "The Sarah Silverman Program," among other shows. He has some experience in the animation world as well, and earned a 2007 Annie Award nomination for co-writing "Monster House." In his first big-screen helming gig, Schrab will be working from a script by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who wrote and directed the original "Lego Movie" and are also producing the sequel (with Dan Lin...

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There's a new kid on the blocks.
Director Rob Schrab will make his feature film debut with "The Lego Movie Sequel," Warner Bros. announced Tuesday.
A veteran of TV comedy, Schrab has directed episodes of "Community," "The...

The boys are back in town.
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Fox and The Lonely Island have unveiled the first three comedy projects from their joint development deal, called "Party Over Here." One of them features a beloved "Community" vet.
The Lonely Island, the comedy troupe made up of...

Joel McHale is going to be serving up "The Soup" for quite a while.
The comedian and star of "Community" has signed an extended agreement with E! that will keep him on the 10-year-old series, which comedically skewers reality and talk...

"Powerless" (PBS, Monday). A film about power and the lack of it, and how little things are made to work when big things fail. We are in Kanpur, India, population 3 million, where there is no electricity for many and often none for any. The main...

It's hard to decide what Dan Harmon has done more of in Hollywood — engineer comebacks or bite the hands that have given him those comebacks.
The "Community" creator — the entertainment industry's id and conscience, its grenade-thrower and...

When NBC fired Dan Harmon in 2012 after three seasons running the sitcom he'd created — the innovatively funny, perennially low-rated meta-humor ensemble "Community" — he took to the road with the confessional, free-wheeling (and, in the case of...

The 2014 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Oct. 31. Release dates and other details, as compiled here by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
Sept. 10
My Old Lady
A down-on-his-luck New Yorker inherits a Parisian...

Netflix is showing Judd Apatow some "Love."
The online streaming service has ordered two seasons of "Love," a half-hour comedy created and written by Apatow, Lesley Arfin and Paul Rust.
The series follows a couple, played by...

ABC and CBS virtually tied in the key 18- to 49-year-old demographic Thursday night, according to early numbers from Nielsen.
Fox's "Hell's Kitchen," the Gordon Ramsay chef show, fell 18% to a 1.4 in 18-49, its lowest number yet for a...

Could this be a mah-velous comedic union? FX announced it has given a series order to the Billy Crystal-fronted half-hour titled "The Comedians."
The single-camera comedy, produced by Fox Television Studios, features the 66-year-old...

With ratings gains from "Scandal" and "Grey's Anatomy," ABC beat rival broadcasters in a key demo on Thursday as Fox's "American Idol" hit another low.
"Scandal" was the highest-rated show of the night,...